logotextometrica

 Textometrica created by Simon Lindgren and Fredrik Palm, HUMlab,Umeå
University. Free for academic and non-profit use. Please cite in any
publication: ”S. Lindgren and F. Palm (2011), Textometrica Service Package,
online at http://textometrica.humlab.umu.se”.
men : actions
actions: men


Complete text of 61125973:

And because the End, by the greatnesse of the impression, comes often to mind, in case our thoughts begin to wander, they are quickly again reduced into the way: which observed by one of the seven wise men , made him give men  this praecept, which is now worne out, Respice Finem; that is to say, in all your actions , look often upon what you would have, as the thing that directs all your thoughts in the way to attain it

Complete text of 61126099:

Writers of Politiques, adde together Pactions, to find mens Duties; and Lawyers, Lawes and Facts, to find what is Right and Wrong in the actions  of private men 

Complete text of 61126418:

Whether the Earths, or Suns motion make the day, and night; or whether the Exorbitant actions  of men , proceed from Passion, or from the Divell, (so we worship him not) it is all one, as to our obedience, and subjection to God Almighty; which is the thing for which the Scripture was written

Complete text of 61126453:

The other, is Civill History; which is the History of the Voluntary actions  of men  in Common-wealths

Complete text of 61126598:

And therefore the voluntary actions , and inclinations of all men , tend, not only to the procuring, but also to the assuring of a contented life; and differ onely in the way: which ariseth partly from the diversity of passions, in divers men ; and partly from the difference of the knowledge, or opinion each one has of the causes, which produce the effect desired

Complete text of 61126609:

Love Of Vertue, From Love Of Praise Desire of Praise, disposeth to laudable actions , such as please them whose judgement they value; for of these men  whom we contemn, we contemn also the Praises

Complete text of 61126628:

Frugality,(though in poor men  a Vertue,) maketh a man unapt to atchieve such actions , as require the strength of many men  at once: For it weakeneth their Endeavour, which is to be nourished and kept in vigor by Reward

Complete text of 61126636:

From the same also it proceedeth, that men  cannot distinguish, without study and great understanding, between one action of many men , and many actions of one multitude; as for example, between the one action of all the Senators of Rome in killing Catiline, and the many actions  of a number of Senators in killing Caesar; and therefore are disposed to take for the action of the people, that which is a multitude of actions  done by a multitude of men , led perhaps by the perswasion of one

Complete text of 61126637:

Adhaerence To Custome, From Ignorance Of The Nature Of Right And Wrong Ignorance of the causes, and originall constitution of Right, Equity, Law, and Justice, disposeth a man to make Custome and Example the rule of his actions ; in such manner, as to think that Unjust which it hath been the custome to punish; and that Just, of the impunity and approbation whereof they can produce an Example, or (as the Lawyers which onely use the false measure of Justice barbarously call it) a Precedent; like little children, that have no other rule of good and evill manners, but the correction they receive from their Parents, and Masters; save that children are constant to their rule, whereas men  are not so; because grown strong, and stubborn, they appeale from custome to reason, and from reason to custome, as it serves their turn; receding from custome when their interest requires it, and setting themselves against reason, as oft as reason is against them: Which is the cause, that the doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed, both by the Pen and the Sword: whereas the doctrine of Lines, and Figures, is not so; because men  care not, in that subject what be truth, as a thing that crosses no mans ambition, profit, or lust

Complete text of 61126685:

And to the Worship, which naturally men  conceived fit to bee used towards their Gods, namely Oblations, Prayers, Thanks, and the rest formerly named; the same Legislators of the Gentiles have added their Images, both in Picture, and Sculpture; that the more ignorant sort, (that is to say, the most part, or generality of the people,) thinking the Gods for whose representation they were made, were really included, and as it were housed within them, might so much the more stand in feare of them: And endowed them with lands, and houses, and officers, and revenues, set apart from all other humane uses; that is, consecrated, and made holy to those their Idols; as Caverns, Groves, Woods, Mountains, and whole Ilands; and have attributed to them, not onely the shapes, some of men , some of Beasts, some of Monsters; but also the Faculties, and Passions of men  and beasts; as Sense, Speech, Sex, Lust, Generation, (and this not onely by mixing one with another, to propagate the kind of Gods; but also by mixing with men , and women, to beget mongrill Gods, and but inmates of Heaven, as Bacchus, Hercules, and others;) besides, Anger, Revenge, and other passions of living creatures, and the actions  proceeding from them, as Fraud, Theft, Adultery, Sodomie, and any vice that may be taken for an effect of Power, or a cause of Pleasure; and all such Vices, as amongst men  are taken to be against Law, rather than against Honour

Complete text of 61126705:

For who can believe, that he that doth ordinarily such actions , as proceed from any of these rootes, believeth there is any such Invisible Power to be feared, as he affrighteth other men  withall, for lesser faults? That which taketh away the reputation of Love, is the being detected of private ends: as when the beliefe they require of others, conduceth or seemeth to conduce to the acquiring of Dominion, Riches, Dignity, or secure Pleasure, to themselves onely, or specially

Complete text of 61126898:

And the Heathen that believed, that Saturn was deposed by his son Jupiter, believed neverthelesse the same Jupiter to be the avenger of Injustice: Somewhat like to a piece of Law in Cokes Commentaries on Litleton; where he sayes, If the right Heire of the Crown be attainted of Treason; yet the Crown shall descend to him, and Eo Instante the Atteynder be voyd; From which instances a man will be very prone to inferre; that when the Heire apparent of a Kingdome, shall kill him that is in possession, though his father; you may call it Injustice, or by what other name you will; yet it can never be against Reason, seeing all the voluntary actions  of men tend to the benefit of themselves; and those actions  are most Reasonable, that conduce most to their ends

Complete text of 61126912:

Justice Of men , And Justice Of actions  What The names of Just, and Unjust, when they are attributed to men , signifie one thing; and when they are attributed to actions , another

Complete text of 61126920:

But the Justice of actions  denominates men , not Just, but Guiltlesse; and the Injustice of the same, (which is also called Injury,) gives them but the name of Guilty

Complete text of 61126988:

A Rule, By Which The Laws Of Nature May Easily Be Examined And though this may seem too subtile a deduction of the Lawes of Nature, to be taken notice of by all men ; whereof the most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand; yet to leave all men  unexcusable, they have been contracted into one easie sum, intelligible even to the meanest capacity; and that is, "Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe;" which sheweth him, that he has no more to do in learning the Lawes of Nature, but, when weighing the actions  of other men  with his own, they seem too heavy, to put them into the other part of the ballance, and his own into their place, that his own passions, and selfe-love, may adde nothing to the weight; and then there is none of these Lawes of Nature that will not appear unto him very reasonable

Complete text of 61127000:

Good, and Evill, are names that signifie our Appetites, and Aversions; which in different tempers, customes, and doctrines of men , are different: And divers men , differ not onely in their Judgement, on the senses of what is pleasant, and unpleasant to the tast, smell, hearing, touch, and sight; but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions  of common life

Complete text of 61127077:

Lastly, the agreement of these creatures is Naturall; that of men , is by Covenant only, which is Artificiall: and therefore it is no wonder if there be somewhat else required (besides Covenant) to make their Agreement constant and lasting; which is a Common Power, to keep them in awe, and to direct their actions  to the Common Benefit

Complete text of 61127079:

This is more than Consent, or Concord; it is a reall Unitie of them all, in one and the same Person, made by Covenant of every man with every man, in such manner, as if every man should say to every man, "I Authorise and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to this Assembly of men , on this condition, that thou give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his actions  in like manner

Complete text of 61127091:

OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVERAIGNES BY INSTITUTION The Act Of Instituting A Common-wealth, What A Common-wealth is said to be Instituted, when a Multitude of men  do Agree, and Covenant, Every One With Every One, that to whatsoever Man, or Assembly Of men , shall be given by the major part, the Right to Present the Person of them all, (that is to say, to be their Representative;) every one, as well he that Voted For It, as he that Voted Against It, shall Authorise all the actions  and Judgements, of that Man, or Assembly of men , in the same manner, as if they were his own, to the end, to live peaceably amongst themselves, and be protected against other men 

Complete text of 61127106:

The opinion that any Monarch receiveth his Power by Covenant, that is to say on Condition, proceedeth from want of understanding this easie truth, that Covenants being but words, and breath, have no force to oblige, contain, constrain, or protect any man, but what it has from the publique Sword; that is, from the untyed hands of that Man, or Assembly of men  that hath the Soveraignty, and whose actions are avouched by them all, and performed by the strength of them all, in him united

Complete text of 61127124:

For the actions  of men  proceed from their Opinions; and in the wel governing of Opinions, consisteth the well governing of mens actions , in order to their Peace, and Concord

Complete text of 61127131:

The Right Of Making Rules, Whereby The Subject May Every Man Know What Is So His Owne, As No Other Subject Can Without Injustice Take It From Him Seventhly, is annexed to the Soveraigntie, the whole power of prescribing the Rules, whereby every man may know, what Goods he may enjoy and what actions  he may doe, without being molested by any of his fellow Subjects: And this is it men  Call Propriety

Complete text of 61127250:

Secondly, that a Child of his own, Male, or Female, be preferred before any other; because men  are presumed to be more enclined by nature, to advance their own children, than the children of other men; and of their own, rather a Male than a Female; because men , are naturally fitter than women, for actions  of labour and danger

Complete text of 61127259:

OF DOMINION PATERNALL AND DESPOTICALL A Common-wealth by Acquisition, is that, where the Soveraign Power is acquired by Force; And it is acquired by force, when men  singly, or many together by plurality of voyces, for fear of death, or bonds, do authorise all the actions  of that Man, or Assembly, that hath their lives and liberty in his Power

Complete text of 61127387:

And generally all actions  which men  doe in Common-wealths, for Feare of the law, or actions , which the doers had Liberty to omit

Complete text of 61127388:

Liberty And Necessity Consistent Liberty and Necessity are Consistent: As in the water, that hath not only Liberty, but a Necessity of descending by the Channel: so likewise in the actions  which men  voluntarily doe; which (because they proceed from their will) proceed from Liberty; and yet because every act of mans will, and every desire, and inclination proceedeth from some cause, which causes in a continuall chaine (whose first link in the hand of God the first of all causes) proceed from Necessity

Complete text of 61127397:

For seeing there is no Common-wealth in the world, for the regulating of all the actions , and words of men , (as being a thing impossible:) it followeth necessarily, that in all kinds of actions, by the laws praetermitted, men  have the Liberty, of doing what their own reasons shall suggest, for the most profitable to themselves

Complete text of 61127426:

And by reading of these Greek, and Latine Authors, men from their childhood have gotten a habit (under a false shew of Liberty,) of favouring tumults, and of licentious controlling the actions of their Soveraigns; and again of controlling those controllers, with the effusion of so much blood; as I think I may truly say, there was never any thing so deerly bought, as these Western parts have bought the learning of the Greek and Latine tongues

Complete text of 61127999:

First, by Presumption of false Principles; as when men  from having observed how in all places, and in all ages, unjust actions  have been authorised, by the force, and victories of those who have committed them; and that potent men , breaking through the Cob-web Lawes of their Country, the weaker sort, and those that have failed in their Enterprises, have been esteemed the onely Criminals; have thereupon taken for Principles, and grounds of their Reasoning, "That Justice is but a vain word: That whatsoever a man can get by his own Industry, and hazard, is his own: That the Practice of all Nations cannot be unjust: That examples of former times are good Arguments of doing the like again;" and many more of that kind: Which being granted, no Act in it selfe can be a Crime, but must be made so (not by the Law, but) by the successe of them that commit it; and the same Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth; so that what Marius makes a Crime, Sylla shall make meritorious, and Caesar (the same Lawes standing) turn again into a Crime, to the perpetuall disturbance of the Peace of the Common-wealth

Complete text of 61128061:

Likewise in a Professor of the Law, to maintain any point, on do any act, that tendeth to the weakning of the Soveraign Power, as a greater Crime, than in another man: Also in a man that hath such reputation for wisedome, as that his counsells are followed, or his actions  imitated by many, his fact against the Law, is a greater Crime, than the same fact in another: For such men  not onely commit Crime, but teach it for Law to all other men 

Complete text of 61128101:

Naturall Evill Consequences, No Punishments Sixthly, whereas to certain actions , there be annexed by Nature, divers hurtfull consequences; as when a man in assaulting another, is himselfe slain, or wounded; or when he falleth into sicknesse by the doing of some unlawfull act; such hurt, though in respect of God, who is the author of Nature, it may be said to be inflicted, and therefore a Punishment divine; yet it is not contaned in the name of Punishment in respect of men , because it is not inflicted by the Authority of man

Complete text of 61128167:

For men , as they become at last weary of irregular justling, and hewing one another, and desire with all their hearts, to conforme themselves into one firme and lasting edifice; so for want, both of the art of making fit Laws, to square their actions  by, and also of humility, and patience, to suffer the rude and combersome points of their present greatnesse to be taken off, they cannot without the help of a very able Architect, be compiled, into any other than a crasie building, such as hardly lasting out their own time, must assuredly fall upon the heads of their posterity

Complete text of 61128422:

And of that opinion, the externall signes appearing in the Words, and actions  of men , are called Worship; which is one part of that which the Latines understand by the word Cultus: For Cultus signifieth properly, and constantly, that labour which a man bestowes on any thing, with a purpose to make benefit by it

Complete text of 61128472:

And this is Publique Worship; the property whereof, is to be Uniforme: For those actions  that are done differently, by different men , cannot be said to be a Publique Worship

Complete text of 61128476:

Not All actions  But because not all actions  are signes by Constitution; but some are Naturally signes of Honour, others of Contumely, these later (which are those that men  are ashamed to do in the sight of them they reverence) cannot be made by humane power a part of Divine worship; nor the former (such as are decent, modest, humble Behaviour) ever be separated from it

Complete text of 61129435:

And thence it is, that ignorant, and superstitious men  make great Wonders of those works, which other men , knowing to proceed from Nature, (which is not the immediate, but the ordinary work of God,) admire not at all: As when Ecclipses of the Sun and Moon have been taken for supernaturall works, by the common people; when neverthelesse, there were others, could from their naturall causes, have foretold the very hour they should arrive: Or, as when a man, by confederacy, and secret intelligence, getting knowledge of the private actions  of an ignorant, unwary man, thereby tells him, what he has done in former time; it seems to him a Miraculous thing; but amongst wise, and cautelous men , such Miracles as those, cannot easily be done

Complete text of 61129510:

Now seeing Eternall Life is a greater reward, than the Life Present; and Eternall Torment a greater punishment than the Death of Nature; It is a thing worthy to be well considered, of all men  that desire (by obeying Authority) to avoid the calamities of Confusion, and Civill war, what is meant in Holy Scripture, by Life Eternall, and Torment Eternall; and for what offences, against whom committed, men  are to be Eternally Tormented; and for what actions , they are to obtain Eternall Life

Complete text of 61130449:

I say, he cannot in this case observe the same in his actions , nor in his discourse with other men ; though he may without blame beleeve the his private Teachers, and wish he had the liberty to practise their advice; and that it were publiquely received for Law

Complete text of 61130649:

For it is evident to the meanest capacity, that mens actions are derived from the opinions they have of the Good, or Evill, which from those actions  redound unto themselves; and consequently, men that are once possessed of an opinion, that their obedience to the Soveraign Power, will bee more hurtfull to them, than their disobedience, will disobey the Laws, and thereby overthrow the Common-wealth, and introduce confusion, and Civill war; for the avoiding whereof, all Civill Government was ordained

Complete text of 61130768:

The Civill Soveraigne If A Christian, Is Head Of The Church In His Own Dominions From this consolidation of the Right Politique, and Ecclesiastique in Christian Soveraigns, it is evident, they have all manner of Power over their Subjects, that can be given to man, for the government of mens externall actions , both in Policy, and Religion; and may make such Laws, as themselves shall judge fittest, for the government of their own Subjects, both as they are the Common-wealth, and as they are the Church: for both State, and Church are the same men 

Complete text of 61130987:

He cannot oblige men  to beleeve; though as a Civill Soveraign he may make Laws suitable to his Doctrine, which may oblige men  to certain actions , and sometimes to such as they would not otherwise do, and which he ought not to command; and yet when they are commanded, they are Laws; and the externall actions  done in obedience to them, without the inward approbation, are the actions  of the Soveraign, and not of the Subject, which is in that case but as an instrument, without any motion of his owne at all; because God hath commanded to obey them

Complete text of 61130998:

"You know what commandements we gave you:" where the Greek word is paraggelias edokamen, equivalent to paredokamen, what wee delivered to you, as in the place next before alledged, which does not prove the Traditions of the Apostles, to be any more than Counsells; though as is said in the 8th verse, "he that despiseth them, despiseth not man, but God": For our Saviour himself came not to Judge, that is, to be King in this world; but to Sacrifice himself for Sinners, and leave Doctors in his Church, to lead, not to drive men  to Christ, who never accepteth forced actions , (which is all the Law produceth,) but the inward conversion of the heart; which is not the work of Laws, but of Counsell, and Doctrine

Complete text of 61131104:

And thus you see the laboured fallacy of the first Argument, to deceive such men  as distinguish not between the Subordination of Actions in the way to the End; and the Subjection of Persons one to another in the administration of the Means

Complete text of 61131797:

But the inward thoughts of men, which appeare outwardly in their words and actions , are the signes of our Honoring, and these goe by the name of WORSHIP, in Latine, CULTUS

Complete text of 61131799:

Distinction Between Divine And Civill Worship The Worship we exhibite to those we esteem to be but men , as to Kings, and men  in Authority, is Civill Worship: But the worship we exhibite to that which we think to bee God, whatsoever the words, ceremonies, gestures, or other actions  be, is Divine Worship

Complete text of 61131844:

For Idolatry is to worship by signes of an internall, and reall honour: but Scandalous Worship, is but Seeming Worship; and may sometimes bee joined with an inward, and hearty detestation, both of the Image, and of the Phantasticall Daemon, or Idol, to which it is dedicated; and proceed onely from the fear of death, or other grievous punishment; and is neverthelesse a sin in them that so worship, in case they be men  whose actions are looked at by others, as lights to guide them by; because following their ways, they cannot but stumble, and fall in the way of Religion: Whereas the example of those we regard not, works not on us at all, but leaves us to our own diligence and caution; and consequently are no causes of our falling

Complete text of 61131997:

Private Appetite The Rule Of Publique Good: Aristotle, and other Heathen Philosophers define Good, and Evill, by the Appetite of men ; and well enough, as long as we consider them governed every one by his own Law: For in the condition of men  that have no other Law but their own Appetites, there can be no generall Rule of Good, and Evill actions 

Complete text of 61131999:

And yet is this Doctrine still practised; and men judge the Goodnesse, or Wickednesse of their own, and of other mens actions, and of the actions  of the Common-wealth it selfe, by their own Passions; and no man calleth Good or Evill, but that which is so in his own eyes, without any regard at all to the Publique Laws; except onely Monks, and Friers, that are bound by Vow to that simple obedience to their Superiour, to which every Subject ought to think himself bound by the Law of Nature to the Civill Soveraign

Complete text of 61132015:

Laws Over The Conscience There is another Errour in their Civill Philosophy (which they never learned of Aristotle, nor Cicero, nor any other of the Heathen,) to extend the power of the Law, which is the Rule of actions  onely, to the very Thoughts, and Consciences of men , by Examination, and Inquisition of what they Hold, notwithstanding the Conformity of their Speech and Actions: By which, men  are either punished for answering the truth of their thoughts, or constrained to answer an untruth for fear of punishment

Complete text of 61132080:

But as the Inventions of men  are woven, so also are they ravelled out; the way is the same, but the order is inverted: The web begins at the first Elements of Power, which are Wisdom, Humility, Sincerity, and other vertues of the Apostles, whom the people converted, obeyed, out of Reverence, not by Obligation: Their Consciences were free, and their Words and actions  subject to none but the Civill Power